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# If a person has a something that cannot be removed covering his hand (a cast), he should wash the hand hand three times and make the beracha as usual. <ref> Yechave Daat 2:19 </ref>
# If a person has a something that cannot be removed covering his hand (a cast), he should wash the hand hand three times and make the beracha as usual. <ref> Yechave Daat 2:19 </ref>


==Proper Age for Children to Start Washing==
==Who is Obligated==
# Women are equally obligated to wash netilat yadayim. <ref> Kaf Hachayim 4:20. He also points out that in fact, women may have a greater obligation because they prepare the food and feed the children and therefore have more control over the purity of their houses. </ref>
===Children===
*Shulchan Aruch Harav, the Eishel Avraham and Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach say that the obligation for children to wash begins at the age of chinuch for other mitzvot which is approximately 5 or 6. <ref> Shulchan Aruch Harav 4:2, Eishel Avraham OC 4, Halichot Shlomo 20:25. </ref>
*Shulchan Aruch Harav, the Eishel Avraham and Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach say that the obligation for children to wash begins at the age of chinuch for other mitzvot which is approximately 5 or 6. <ref> Shulchan Aruch Harav 4:2, Eishel Avraham OC 4, Halichot Shlomo 20:25. </ref>
*Mishna Berura says the obligation begins at the time when the child begins to eat on his own. <ref> Mishna Berura 4:10 based on the Pri Megadim 7. </ref>
*Mishna Berura says the obligation begins at the time when the child begins to eat on his own. <ref> Mishna Berura 4:10 based on the Pri Megadim 7. </ref>